I have to admit that I don't really understand the excitement the Left feels over the Scooter Libby trial.
I mean, here we have a trial based on a guy who might have perjured himself about...what? Patrick Fitzgerald knew early into his investigation that no crime had been committed. He also knew the identity of the leaker: Richard Armitage. He also knew that the leak was inadvertent and that Valerie Plame wasn't a covert agent.
Fitzgerald knew there was no there there. But he persued the case anyway until he found someone in the Bush administration--however tenuous the link--to indict.
And that's why we face the gleeful liberal onslaught of stories on this trial. Huffington Post ran this breathless account of how five--five!--witnesses have contradicted Scooter Libby's version of Leakgate. Firedoglake is running daily summaries of events. Digby is running transcripts.
Maybe this is the way liberals felt about the Clinton impeachment, that it was a minor offense, "just about sex," and that Republicans blew it out of proportion. They think Ken Starr spent millions and turned up nothing but a blue dress.
But aside from the obvious difference (Clinton was president, after all), there are other differences. Like the fact that Clinton did lie to the American people. He misused executive authority. He got other people to lie for him (suborning perjury). Dems may think everybody lies about sex, but Clinton is the first president in history to lose his bar card for it.
What we have here is silliness and stupidity. But since they won't get an impeachment, I guess liberals have to make themselves feel better with this idiotic waste of taxpayer time and money.
The bad part of this is that Mr Libby might have broken the law trying to cover up something that wasn't a crime!
ReplyDeleteI heard Brit Hume on Laura Ingraham's show yesterday say that prosecutors could indict half of Washington on perjury crimes for things like this. The bottom line is that there was no crime committed and Fitzgerald has wasted taxpayer time and money bringing this ridiculous case forward all so liberals can feel some sort of satisfaction that somebody--anybody!--went on trial. They are trying so hard to make this about Karl Rove and Dick Cheney that it's almost funny (but instead, it's sad). At Huffington Post, they say they are satisfied that what they thought about the White House is being proved. Haven't they watched politics over the last 40 years? I've watched every administration spin news in a way that was most favorable to them. They release bad news at times when it will be buried (remember the bombings in the Sudan and Monica Lewinsky). They go on fora that they think are favorable to them and talk to reporters who seem sympathetic. That libs think that's a "gotcha!" moment is pathetic.
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